LCBO Food & Drink Holiday 2025

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Match Points

Tradition without cliché! That’s the thinking behind our menu and our wine matches.

MOROCCAN-SPICED SALAD AND RADICCHIO-FENNEL SLAW

GOLDEN BEET “RAVIOLI” AND SOPPRESSATA “CANNELLONI”

Leave the Sauvignon Blanc on the table: it embraces the vegetable flavours and spices in our deliciously imaginative salads. Soak the raisins in the wine.

Sauvignon Blanc will work well with both of these gorgeous appetizers, picking up the arugula, lemon and fennel flavours and refreshing the creamy ricotta.

Beronia Reserva VINTAGES ESSENTIALS 50203, $23.95 For “big red” lovers, this mature, no-nonsense Rioja wraps black fruit, licorice and cloves around oaky spices and a sturdy acidity. It opens up with decanting and comes to life with food, revealing deep, dark layers of flavour.

APPLE CRINKLE CAKE Reinvigorate your taste buds and go for dramatic contrast by serving a fresh, fruity, uncomplicated sparkling wine with this rich, syrupy dessert.

SELF-BASTING TURKEY WITH RED WINE GRAVY Yes, roast turkey can take a big Spanish red, especially if you build a flavour-bridge

by using the same wine in the robust (and handily make‑ahead) gravy.

Find these recipes, plus a recipe for Croissant Stuffing with Leeks & Emmenthal and a roundup of some favourite potato recipes from our archives, online at LCBO.com/MakeItModern

PHOTOGRAPHY BY MAYA VISNYEI; FOOD STYLING BY LINDSAY GUSCOTT; PROP STYLING BY CATHERINE DOHERTY; PROP STYLING FOR PRODUCT SHOT BY STACEY SMITHERS